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TODAY IN ONE PARAGRAPH: Ukraine's prime minister accused Russia of planning to send troops across its eastern border as the new government deals with unrest in several cities. A recent poll shows people who can't find Ukraine on a map are more likely to favor American military intervention there. The Supreme Court declined to take up a case on the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's phone metadata program and another case over a wedding-photography company that wouldn't photograph a same-sex wedding. Senate Democrats want two federal agencies to stop e-cigarette companies from claiming they can help people quit smoking. And Americans have been missing out on better sunscreen for years as ingredients wait for approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

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UKRAINE ACCUSES RUSSIA OF PLANNING TO INVADE:Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said separatist violence in eastern cities including Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Luhansk are part of Russia's plan to "cross the border and seize the country's territory, which we will not allow." (Lally/Englund, WaPo)

BUT WHERE IS UKRAINE? It sounds like an unnecessary question, but only one in six Americans can find it on a map, and the worse they are at locating it, the more they favor American military intervention. (WaPo)

SUPREME COURT PASSES ON NSA REVIEW: President Obama and Congress have vowed to reform the agency's bulk collection of phone metadata, but the high court declined to take on the case following a lower court's ruling that the program was "almost Orwellian" and likely violates the Fourth Amendment. (Dustin Volz, NJ)

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ALSO WON'T TAKE UP FREE-SPEECH CASE: A New Mexico photography company refused to photograph a same-sex wedding because of its owners' religious beliefs and argued its right to free speech defended it against claims that it broke a state antidiscrimination law. The case received national attention when Arizona's Legislature passed a bill, which was ultimately vetoed, that would have allowed businesses to refuse service to anyone based on religious beliefs. A New Mexico Supreme Court ruling against the company will stand. (Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)

SENATE DEMOCRATS CALL FOR E-CIGARETTE CRACKDOWN:Sen. Barbara Boxer and others called on the Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Commission to use existing regulations to stop e-cigarette companies from saying the product could help people quit smoking, while FDA prepares other related regulations. (Benjamin Goad, The Hill)

TOMORROW IN ONE PARAGRAPH: Attorney General Eric Holder will testify at 10 a.m. at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department oversight. Secretary of State John Kerry and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will speak at 3:30 p.m. at the annual meeting of the President's Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez will take part in an 8 a.m. National Journal forum titled "The Next America: Points of Leverage."

REPLACING ROBOTS WITH HUMANS: Toyota is scaling back automation in some factories in order to enhance workers' understanding of how the factories work and to find ways to operate more efficiently. (Max Nisen, Quartz)

PEET'S COFFEE COMES TO D.C.:Its first Washington coffee shop opens at a former Caribou Coffee today, and it plans for another 22 locations in the next few months. (Abha Bhattarai, WaPo)

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